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Lesson Plan Template

Instructors name: Kathy Rappaport Week of: Dec 2-6 2013 Course/Grade: Assisted Reading Unit Name: Reading and Writing strategies for fiction and nonfiction

Common Core/ NM Content Standards: Reading Standard for informational texts Grade 7: 2. Determine two or more central ideas in a text, 4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases in a text. Writing Standard Grade 7.2a Compare and Contrast information, Identify Cause and Effect. 7.3 Write narratives of imagined experiences.

Essential Question(s): What are effective strategies for reading fictional and informational texts? What are strategies for writing about fictional and informational texts.

Connections (prior learning/prior knowledge): Continuation of strategies used in the prior week such as pre-reading strategies: defining tier 2 vocab words before reading the text, predicting main ideas; reading strategies: asking questions as you read, rereading for comprehension, looking for main ideas and supporting ideas; post reading strategies: comparing pre-reading predictions with post reading knowledge, answering questions that ask students to recall explicit ideas and infer implicit ideas, requiring students to summarize. Resources/Materials Because of Winn-Dixie TFK Magazine Worksheets

Other considerations (modifications, accommodations, acceleration, etc.):

Assessment (How will you monitor progress and know students have successfully met outcomes?) Daily: Do Now checks for understanding of the previous days lesson. Written assignments and quizzes check for understanding of daily lessons. This Week: Students will fill out reading packet that focuses on vocabulary, comprehension, inferring information, and summarizing main ideas.

Time allotted MONDAY Learning TargetStudents will demonstrate their ability to understand words and phrases in a story as they use Tier II vocabulary (words that are commonly used)

Lesson activities for instructor and students Assignment(s) DueVocab Worksheets Reading Response Worksheets

in CLOZE sentences, as they match words with synonyms and as they create their own sentences using the words. Students will identify main ideas and supporting ideas as well as draw inferences from implicit ideas as they discuss questions related to Because of Winn Dixie and write down answers to questions.

TUESDAY Learning TargetStudents will show their ability to recall main ideas and supporting details by taking a test that requires this information.

Assignment(s) DueComplete worksheets from yesterday and complete the test.

WEDNESDAY Learning TargetStudents will show their ability to determine the meaning of academic vocabulary and vocabulary that is related to a specific domain by writing definitions in their words, by creating their own sentences using vocab words and by taking a multiple choice test. Students will show an ability to tap into prior knowledge about a subject by filling out a What I Know worksheet. Students will demonstrate their ability to identify main ideas and supporting ideas by writing them down in their own words.

Assignment(s) DueFill out TFK packet.

THURSDAY Learning TargetContinued from yesterday. FRIDAY Learning TargetStudents will continue to meet the learning goals from Tues.

Assignment(s) DueContinued from Yesterday

Assignment(s) DueContinuation of work from Tuesday

Post-Teaching Reflections on Lesson

What went well?

What needs to be improved? Why?

Strategies to consider for improving lesson: